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Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, May 6th 2010

UK voters head to the polls today to choose any new government they want, as long as it comes in green. The EPA does some Californication to farmers and the Guardian continues its countdown to the end of the world (you have about 6.5 years left, in case you were interested).

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Part One: Al Gore & Friends

The spiritual leader of the climate cult is catching some heat of the critical kind over his purchase of a new house in California. The article ponders the question ‘has Al Gore given up on global warming’. The answer is no, he believes in Goreism and no longer cares what people think of his ‘do as I say’ attitude, even as he lives the dream.

“When the mountain glaciers are gone and there’s climatic chaos, the next generation of ours will be asking ‘What were you thinking? Didn’t you have any lawyers?’”

Skipping the inconvenient fact that Al is still peddling the mountain glaciers scare when the Himalayan glaciers are just fine, does Al really believe that lawyers can make anything better? Really? Maybe the global warming hoax really is in the end times.

Then, the great Global Warming collapse of 2010. Muckraking reporters from Gore’s rival, the Internet-Examiner, released the East Anglia emails dooming the carbon market. In the days following the crash, one Gore climate speech is canceled. And another. And yet more. He is laughed off the nation’s stage and retreats to the opulent solitude of Montecito. Alone in his never-finished, already decaying pleasure palace, aloof, never visited, seldom photographed, an emperor left to direct his failing empire. Vainly attempting to sway the destinies of the planet that was no longer interested in his apocalyptic visions of drowning penguins.

May 20th was to be ‘Everybody Draw Mohammad Day’, but then the cartoonist chickened out and suggested that it become ‘Everybody Draw Al Gore Day‘. Now there is a clear choice, do you want to draw a prophet, or a profiteer?

If Mann takes a punt in the courts then his meta data and source codes used in his graphs are germane. The rules of discovery are clear; the respondents will be entitled to full disclosure of any and all evidence pertaining to the issues so that the trier of fact may determine the credibility of the allegations.

Kevin Rudd, the Aussie PM dumped the ETS scheme, because being elected trumps saving the planet. Fortunately, the Interwebs never forget and Simon has all the scare quotes to highlight Rudd’s dishonest, cowardly opportunism. A Rudd snippet:

THE time has come for a grand bargain between the past and the future. Each and every one of us here will be judged as individuals. For what we say. For what we do. And for what we fail to do. Words without deeds are a dead letter. There have been millions of words spoken here, but as one of our colleagues said, it is time to stop talking and start working.

The gathering at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral was yet another sign of a maturing religious environmental activism and sophistication 40 years after the first Earth Day. At that time, religious bodies were virtually silent about “green” issues. Not now. Indeed, longtime environmental advocates such as author Bill McKibben, the keynote speaker at St. John’s, said that whatever success there may be in staunching the worst effects of climate change will depend in large part on people of faith.

Those fighting back are trying desperately to dismiss the growing revelations that not only is the science used by the so-called consensus highly (and increasingly) uncertain but so too are the temperatures used as statistical backing for that science. The defenders have brushed aside as not affecting the “basic” science the much publicised error in the IPCC 2007 report that Himalayan glaciers are in danger of melting by 2035. But also brushed aside are the incorrect claims that 40% of the Amazon rain forest is at risk of destruction; that African agricultural production is likely to be cut in half; that coral reef degradation will be extensive; that glacier melt will occur in the Andes and Alps; that extreme weather related events are causing rising costs; and that the Netherlands is 55% below sea levels when in fact it is only 26% and has shown itself well able to handle relevant problems. And there has been no explanation of the cessation of the portrayal in IPCC reports of the no-temperature-increase-before-industrialisation “hockey-stick” thesis or of the graph of the medieval period showing higher-temperatures-than-now. Nor has there been any response to recent discoveries that about one-third of the peer-reviewed references in IPCC AR4 are not peer-reviewed.

The question I ask myself now,” Brand tells us when he gets to nuclear power, is: “What took me so long? I could have looked into the realities of nuclear power many years earlier, if I weren’t so lazy.” When he got over his nuclear sloth, here’s what Brand learned. (Most of the words quoted here are Brand’s own, but some are Brand quoting others approvingly.) “Fear of radiation is a far more important health threat than radiation itself.” “Reactor safety is a problem already solved,” and the new reactors are even safer than the old. Waste isn’t a problem; we need the $10 billion Yucca mountain disposal site “about as much as we need a facility for imprisoning dangerous extraterrestrials.” Nuclear power isn’t just the cheapest practical carbon-free option around, but the cheapest, period, when not snarled up in green tape.

On her way home, the reporter had to stop for her third charge of the day, hoping to grab just enough juice to finish the trip from an outlet shared with a vending machine beside a gas station. Even then, an hour at the 110-volt plug was not enough to finish the 14-mile journey.

We are beginning to see blue ribbon commissions of carefully chosen “experts” whose job is to exonerate the guilty and get global warming hysteria back on track. A better approach is to embrace what the Nobel laureate in physics, Richard Feynman, called “utter honesty.” Implicated scientists are aware of what honest data show. Increased carbon dioxide has, at most, a minor effect on global temperature and is highly beneficial to our green natural world.

GREEN CLIMATE SUPERSTITION. This is epitomised by the smudgy, daubed tree emblem. These lunatics believe in Al Gore’s self-interested nonsense and will destroy our economy and our energy policy over that delusion. Any politician who subscribes to the AGW superstition is ineligible for election.

Australia’s government might have backed off ETS, but that doesn’t mean all the civil servants hired to administer it are out of a job.

Markey vs. Monckton, it’s ON. The Viscount and the vacuous mind, together at last.